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...system with more student choice is typically justified by a concern for “House atmosphere.” If students aren’t forced to contract for 21 meals per week, they will choose to eat away from their Houses much more often. And if fewer people take their meals in the dining hall, House life and communal spirit will be critically damaged. Or so the argument goes...
...epidemicshows no signof abatement; in fact, it's spreading. The Chinese government reports that 60 million Chinese people are overweight--in a country that never had that problem before. The culprit: prosperity, which permits Chinese people to eat more fats and junk food, fewer grains and vegetables. In short, they can now eat just as irresponsibly as Americans. High blood pressure and diabetes are also up. In the U.S., the epicenter of the problem, a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology offered the disturbing news that heart problems can be seen in obese teens...
...Africa under age 15 are living with HIV, according to a study published last week by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization. Of these youngsters, perhaps 660,000 are sick enough to require medical intervention. Yet only 1 in 20 children who need ARVs get them. In addition, fewer than 1 in 10 HIV-positive mothers receive the drugs they need to keep from transmitting the virus to their newborns...
...already see the difference in Lesotho, a tiny mountain kingdom of 2 million people surrounded by its much larger and richer neighbor, South Africa. At least 22,000 Basotho children are HIV positive, but as of two years ago, fewer than 20 were on ARVs, and there were only two doctors in the whole country looking after children with AIDS. In the year since the children's clinic opened on the outskirts of Maseru, 700 kids--including Bokang--have received treatment from 10 pediatricians...
...number of babies infected with HIV at birth has dropped dramatically--from its peak of more than 1,600 in 1991 to fewer than 50 in 2004--thanks to AZT regimens for HIV-positive mothers. But that leaves nearly 10,000 U.S. children who have been diagnosed with AIDS, and their long-term prognosis says a lot about what lies ahead for millions of children in the developing world...